Today's Meetings:

9.45am Children's Bible Club
10.15am Sunday Prayer Meeting in cottage
11.00am Morning Service
6.00pm Evening Service
After Church Fellowship at Paul & Janet's home.

Weekly Meetings:

Monday

3.45 to 4.45 Children's Hour

Tuesday

8.00pm Lord's Table and Members' Prayer Meeting

Wednesday

9.30am to 11.00am No Mums & Tots as it is "cleaning equipment week"
6.45pm to 8.00pm KIC club - For Year 4,5 & 6 children.

Thursday

2.00 Ladies Rest Hour - Speaker: Isobel Hider
7.45pm Bible Study and Prayer Meeting - Led by Paul. John 17 v 14 - Prayer focus: KIC club.

Friday

7.30pm to 9.00pm FOY - For secondary school children

Sunday

11.00am & 6.00pm Sunday Services - Led by Pastor

Thought For The Week:

"Whoever confesses Me before men, him the Son of Man also will confess before the angels of God."
Luke 12: 8

Prayer For The Church:

Please remember Rose and her family in your prayers.
Pray for Sarah and Mona.
Pray for the commencement of the youth work after the Easter break, particularly for that attentiveness during the epilogues.
Pray for Gina, that the doctors will be able to find a way to give relief from her back pain.

Prayer For The Local Area:

Prayer For The Wider Area:

Lecturers have impact on students and teachers

I.N. Network youth worker Martin Ruzicka began ministering to youth in the Czech Republic in January. The main ministry of I.N. Network is to students ages 14 to 18. Youth workers are given the opportunity to give lectures at schools about relationships, sexuality and other pressing issues from a Christian perspective.

Kladivo's lectures are informative, but really give him the opportunity to be a positive influence on the lives of students. He provides a testimony of Christ by his views on serious issues and the way he conducts himself. He later follows up with individual students to harvest relationships that may be the starting point of relationships with Jesus.

Whether or not it was the original intention of the ministry, Kladivo is frequently setting an example for teachers. The Lord has used him to share the reason behind his lecture, as well as the Gospel, with teachers. Although it has been a difficult and spiritually-trying ministry for Kladivo, he is clearly making an impact for the kingdom.

Election violence halts housing project in India

Violence marred the beginning of India's four-week national election process. In 14 attacks on polling stations, 17 people were killed in eastern and central India.

Founder of Gospel For Asia KP Yohannan, speaking from India, says this election violence and the threat of violence has postponed their Orissa State house rebuilding project. "With the election and the unfavourable situation with the bureaucrats that are very anti-Christian in Kandhamal and several other districts, they didn't want to give us protection."

Gospel for Asia has committed to rebuilding 1,000 homes at about $2,000 to $3,000 each. Yohannan says this program is expected to resume after the elections. "We may have greater protection and help from the changed new government in the state of Orissa to rebuild these houses and help the people who lost everything."

Hundreds of thousands of Christians were displaced in the Orissa state violence that began in August 2008. Homes were burned to the ground. Some Christians were killed. Others were chased into the forest, fearing for their lives. Many remain there.

Yohannan says the anti-Christian violence back-fired. "Persecuting Christians is not a way to stop the Christian faith. Even today, in spite of all the persecution, people are coming to Christ."

Bible Readings:

20th 2 Chronicles 26:1-23; Mark 6:30-56
21st 2 Chronicles 27:1-28:27; Mark 7:1-23
22nd Psalm 93; Mark 7:24-8:13
23rd 2 Chronicles 29:1-36; Mark 8:14-38
24th 2 Chronicles 30:1-27; Mark 9:1-32
25th 2 Chronicles 31:1-21; Mark 9:33-10:12
26th Proverbs 21; Mark 10:13-52
27th 2 Chronicles 32:1-33,Mark 11:1-33

General Announcements:

Want to get fit
If you would like to have some fun getting fit, please see either Sarah or Debbie. This is open to everyone on a Monday evening from 7.30pm.

B.B.Q. Please bring your diaries Tuesday - as we need to fix a date for our outreach B.B.Q.